In 2011 a remarkable piece of footage was released onto
LiveLeak. It is made up of clips taken from a remote camera being used by
engineers inspecting sewers underneath the streets of Manchester ,
England Reyner Street
and St James Street in the
city centre. The first clip shows an animal of some kind leap across a junction
ahead. It's too fast to be examined closely, but it looks too big to be a rat.
It is probably bipedal and has a long tail. The camera stops moving, as if the
operator is shocked by what he's seen. The second clip is in a different kind
of sewer, a more modern one with a circular cross-section, but the same thing
happens. The third clip looks normal so I don't know why it has been added to
the footage; nevertheless some strange white vapour is blowing through the
pipe, a bit like fog. It is the last clip that is the most interesting. It is shot
in a 19th century sewer with old brickwork up the walls and a flat top. The
camera is stationary on a smooth left bend; then a tall upright being of some
kind peeks round. It has two brightly glowing eyes which appear to have
internal luminescence; they're not just reflecting the camera's headlight as a
cat's eyes would. The camera moves towards the entity and it shrinks back out
of sight. The camera stops, as if the operator doesn't want to alarm the beast.
A few seconds later the creature returns. This time it stands and stares,
exposing more of its body. It is definitely bipedal and has long forelimbs. It
appears slightly stooped. It then turns round and vanishes permanently and you
can just see its long thin tail before it's gone. Source: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=433_1301659042.
The water company for the region around Manchester
is called United Utilities and their wastewater network manager Mike Woods
issued a statement: "Several of our
employees have reported sightings of some kind of animal. We've reviewed the
CCTV footage, and it certainly doesn't look like a typical sewer rat. We are
hoping that the public can help us. The animal could possibly be a domestic pet
or feasibly, an animal which has escaped from the zoo. It seems to be feeding
on fat deposits which have built up on the inside of pipes. We're asking the
public to look at the footage, and to contact us if they can shed any light on
what the creature is, and where it might have come from." The CCTV
operator, Ian Appleton, said: "We
survey the sewers using hi-tech cameras mounted on small mobile vehicles, like
very expensive remote control cars. I was sat in the van looking at the live
sewer images on a monitor. I physically jumped when I saw the thing. My first
reaction was: 'That's the biggest rat I've ever seen!' Then it stood up on two
legs and looked almost simian. I was a bit freaked out. I've been in the
business twenty-five years, and it's the most unusual thing I've ever seen down
there. All the lads have seen the footage now, and it gets the same reaction
every time. You're just waiting for them to jump." The animal has apparently
been nicknamed "Messie" by the engineers; presumably this is a play
on the words "Nessie" and "mess", because it's a cryptid like
the Loch Ness Monster found in a messy sewer. The statement by United Utilities
can no longer be found on their website and the only record of it is a handful
of media spots like this one, see: http://www.leighjournal.co.uk/news/8946564.SEWER_CREATURE_CAUGHT_ON_CCTV/#.
However, the water company later issued a second press
release claiming that the whole matter was a hoax. It was a piece of viral
marketing for their campaign to persuade customers to be careful what they
flush down drains and toilets. A lot of damage is done to sewers by
inappropriate objects being disposed of in them, everything from baby wipes and
nappies, cotton buds and many other kinds of household rubbish. These things
need to be put in the dustbin, not down the drain. This statement is also
unavailable on their house site and can only be found in the media, see: http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/business/business-news/united-utilities-sewer-monster-april-857606.
This is a distinct possibility, probably the most likely explanation. It
doesn't help that the news broke on April 1st, so if this is really not a hoax
then its incredibly bad luck for the witness; personally I'd have waited
twenty-four hours before saying a word for that reason alone. On the other hand,
could this be another example of a "CTCS- Conveniently Told Confession
Story"? See here for background details: http://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/alex-malarkey-ctcs.html
and: http://hpanwo.blogspot.co.uk/2011/04/paranormality-by-prof-richard-wiseman.html.
Also, if the creature is a piece of computer generated animation, the company
does not attribute the artist who rendered it. Don't they want this work on
their CV? If there is some kind of mutant or hybrid living beneath the streets
of Manchester then there are many
reasons why the authorities might not want the public to know about it. In the
event of an information leak, concocting a false hoax story could be a way of
dissolving any interest the story could generate. If there is some strange
critter making its home in Mancunian effluent, then what is it? The sewer
network in large British cities is often very old, being installed mostly
during the Victorian era to prevent cholera, see: http://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/joseph-bazalgette-memorial-hpanwo.html.
Until modern remote CCTV came along, a lot of these passageways have not been
seen by human eyes since their construction well over a century ago. It's not
inconceivable that this artificial environment has become an unintentional
evolutionary hothouse, causing new species to emerge far more radically and
quickly than they would in nature. If so then the beast is probably a
descendent of the brown rat, the principle large predator in the habitat. It's
also highly adaptive and a fast breeder. I've studied other examples of extreme
rat mutation in the background links at the bottom. Alternatively it could be
an escapee, as the water company suggested; but not from a zoo, from a secret
government laboratory like Porton Down or Peasemore. Of course this is a long
shot; why shouldn't the water company create a hoax to hammer home the hazards
of incorrect use of drains? However, can we trust their word? What is the
reputation United Utilities has for honesty? In this lecture: http://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/richplanet-live-in-london.html,
and this film: http://www.richplanet.net/starship_main.php?ref=205&part=1,
Richard D Hall claims that United Utilities lied to cover up their own criminal
negligence that led to the death of a policeman, many injuries, the loss of
hundreds of homes and billions of pounds worth of damage in the 2005 Cumbrian
flood. They might even have staged a mass-murder using a mind-controlled
Manchurian Candidate-style killer. In my view, it is far too soon to decide for
certain that United Utilities' response to the presence of this strange
LiveLeak film is sincere. We must also consider the fact that
"Messie" is not the only example of weird fauna existing in the dark
channels below the city streets. A large mollusc-like organism was spotted by a
construction team in Raleigh , North
Carolina USA London 's
sewers and spreading out across the world. I know it was only a work of
fiction, but life imitates art so much that I can't help wondering where
authors get their ideas from.
See here for
background: http://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/ship-of-rats.html.
And: http://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/peasemore-2-harwell-laboratories.html.
2 comments:
Ninja Turtle??
Leonardo probably
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